You’ll get no argument from me ;-)

Well, if they wear the flag, display the Swastika, do the salute or go on about white supremacy, that’s a pretty solid hint.

A Nazi is (originally) a particular brand of fascism, but much like champagne, it has become a generic term for the whole family of ideologies. The “ur-fascist” definition by Umberto Eco, who was witness to the fascist regime of Mussolini, highlights a few key traits if fascist ideology like a cult of tradition, emphasis on machismo and action over thought, obedience over independence, contempt for pacifism and weakness and populism that leverages frustrations, conspiracy theories and fears to rally its followers against some perceived enemy.

Not every trait is fascist on its own, but neither does some movement need to tick all boxes to be fascist. There’s sure to be some grey area, but if you have people rushing to inflict violence on anyone looking differently, spurred on by a guy promising to restore some ambiguous past glory by blaming the economic and social troubles on foreigners and beating the war drums… yeah, well, eventually the indicators start piling up.

I applaud you for finding what I was reluctant to even search.

Shoes to drag it through the dirt, undies to rub your crotch on it and if anyone shows me condoms to fuck the flag with, I won’t be the least bit surprised.

By building a people powered movement through solidarity, establishing workers co-operatives, industrial unionization, pro-revolutionary social spaces and through direct action.

Do you have concrete suggestions for what I personally could do? I often read these things online, but it feels like buzzwords and technical terms thrown around in the expectation that they should mean something to the audience, but I’m not sure they do.

What I mostly do so far is try to sprinkle offhand comments into conversations to (hopefully) sow seeds of class consciousness without actually getting preachy and pushing people away. I don’t know how much that helps.

Vitally, learn about anarchism, and how it presents a solution to our deeply, fundamentally broken society.

I’ve had the anarchist FAQ tab open in my browser since forever, but I find it hard to read and work (by design) often leaves me too tired to meaningfully engage with it.

This circles back into the issue of not knowing what to do: dedicated articles tend to be heavy on quotes, arguments why it’s important and general principles. I don’t need convincing, I need direction.

And how would you go about that revolution?

Voter frustration is a more powerful support than voter apathy. Not voting leaves you with no target to be pissed at; having your vote betrayed provides your anger with direction.

Voting may not be the solution, but it’s a tool for communicating and establishing public sentiment, and public sentiment is what separates revolution from a coup.

This stupid, evil piece of shit. There are people all over the place trying to combat voter apathy and get them to the ballot to at least try to staunch the worst, and there she goes pouring more oil on the fires of defeatism.

I recently had a driver issue that prevented my Linux from booting. It was still less frustrating to deal with than Windows in general.

(The solution was literally one button press: In the menu to select what to boot, I pressed “down” in order to load the previous kernel version and work with that until a patch was available. Everything worked just fine.)

That’s what I said the first time he bragged about his doctors saying that he doesn’t have dementia: I don’t think people without indicators need in-depth screenings in the first place.

There was some Jason Statham flick, Crank, where he has to keep his heart rate up after being poisoned, so he goes on one hell of a adrenaline-junkie-spree, from picking fights over reckless driving and illegal drugs to public sex. Also, there’s some generic mafia gang triad war stuff going on, with kidnappings and all, but really, “you’re gonna die if you stop doing stupid shit” is about as dumb a premise as it gets.

But damn if it didn’t entertain me to watch.

Hold on, the coffee was named for a hotel that hosted the KKK before it was even done?

Take all cars of that make off the road for being a danger, fine the company operating unsafe cars for a chunk of their revenue, suspend their licenses until they prove extensively that their vehicles have been made safe for traffic (the burden of proof for which would have to be far higher than a human driver, since we can’t even assume a base level of human reason).

Would this kill the company? Possibly. Would I shed a tear? Only if those same cars end up driving again without better security measures.

Upvoted for absolute heresy.

I treat it as pointing out the hypocrisy. If you want to do it in a non-derogatory way, you can be overly supportive of his hobby and how he sets an example that men, too, can play with dolls. The more you double down on that, the more it’ll piss off the assholes.